The ovaries are located on both sides of the uterus and are flat and oval-shaped. The ovary of an adult woman weighs 5 to 8 grams. After menopause, it shrinks and becomes smaller and harder. Although the ovary is small, it has huge energy. It is not only the place where eggs are produced, but also can secrete a variety of sex hormones. Ovarian abnormalities can affect normal gender expression, such as menstruation and pregnancy abnormalities. The ovary is also one of the organs with the most types of tumors in the human body. When ovarian function declines, whether due to physiological natural decline or human factors, the human body may experience menopausal discomfort, such as hot flashes, palpitation, and easy temper tantrums.
As an important organ that ensures the reproduction of organisms, the ovary has the function of producing eggs from the embryonic stage, and when a baby is born, it carries 100,000 to 500,000 egg cells into the world. But most of them degenerate and die during development. Normally, only a few hundred egg cells mature during a person\’s lifetime. Only a handful of these mature eggs can be fertilized and develop into embryos. Before menopause, the ovaries continue to produce mature eggs in cycles.
Due to the action of ovarian sex hormones, female characteristics, such as the development of reproductive organs, breast enlargement, high pitch, and female body posture, gradually appear and mature. Menstruation, the most iconic female sign, occurs under the regulation of ovarian hormones. If the ovaries develop abnormally, not only abnormalities may appear in the female genitals and secondary sexual characteristics, but they are often accompanied by malformations in other parts of the body. For example, when the ovaries are underdeveloped, the ovaries are strip-shaped and there are no follicles to the naked eye; patients are often accompanied by delayed menstruation or no menstruation, the breasts and armpit hair are hypoplastic, and the internal and external genitalia are childish; and the symptoms Symptoms include short stature, webbed neck, aortic stenosis, cubital valgus, etc.; the sex chromosomes are also abnormal. Due to this low estrogen level caused by ovarian hypoplasia, estrogen replacement therapy can only be given artificially. Through treatment, although the development of breasts, vulva and uterus can be promoted, fertility cannot be achieved.
This article is provided by Baidu Reading and is excerpted from \”The Clear \”Conception\” Plan\” Author: Sun Jianqiu and Xie Yingbiao